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In the early morning of the 27th, Li Guang, who had not slept all night, was arguing with Major Smith with red eyes. After contacting him overnight, Li Guang got bad news--- it was difficult for the landing operation of the Maritime Resistance Army to get the support of the British army. According to the reply of the British commander in Kenya, Lieutenant General Cunningham, it will take at least a month for the British army to be ready, and he suggested that the naval resistance forces temporarily withdraw from Somalia.

And that's not even counting yesterday, since yesterday, the British fleets stationed in the Indian Ocean and Singapore have been lying down in the harbor after only one lap out of the port. The telegram also vowed that the Strait of Malacca would be stuck and that the Japanese fleet would never be allowed to pass through the Strait of Malacca.

This news made Li Guang's nose twitch a little, it was really shameless. It is impossible for the little devils to go through the Strait of Malacca, and the British army is purely pretending.

Regarding Lieutenant General Cunningham's reply, Li Guang actually understood it. The army led by Cunningham is indeed a ragtag enough that it will be difficult to enter the battle without full integration. Li Guang actually has a good impression of this British gentleman general who has no arrogance, although this lieutenant general is not very famous in history, but he has a strong affinity. After a night of negotiations, General Cunningham agreed to increase the Kenyan-Somali border to put pressure on the Italian army and contain some of the Italian forces. Li Guang did not know whether this kind of move had a substantial effect, but it was much better than the British Navy's pretense.

In the command module of the Pacific, Li Guang analyzed the situation in the African battlefield little by little, hoping to find out information that could be used.

On the African battlefield, in North Africa, the main force under the command of Lieutenant General Archibald Percival Wavell, the commander-in-chief of the British command in the Middle East, was about 30,000 men, including an armored brigade.

Central Africa is. A partial division of more than 40,000 men under the command of General Pratt.

In East Africa, the 26,000-strong motley army commanded by Lieutenant General Cunningham was considered the response force of the British army.

This is very strange, it is clear that the army of more than 40,000 people commanded by General Pratt is more than the 30,000 troops of General Weyer, how can it be a partial division? In fact, the 26,000 men commanded by General Cunningham were not much less than the army commanded by Weyer.

If you understand the composition of the British army, you will know why. The troops under the command of Wevel are miscellaneous, and the miscellaneous ones are not so serious. The ratio of the ragtag army to the real British army was about five to three.

Among the 40,000 troops commanded by General Pratt, the purebred British army did not have it at all, and the main force was two divisions of the Anglo-Indian army. This kind of Anglo-Indian army is actually a British commander, and the soldiers are all Ah San. The combat effectiveness of such an army can be imagined. So it's a partial teacher. (Note, there is a very special force in this army - the Gurkha Infantry Brigade.) ）

The army commanded by General Pratt still had two formed divisions, but the 26,000 men commanded by General Cunningham of the East African Response Force were not composed of them at a military meeting. Anyway, blacks, whites, Indians, Malays and Norsemen, everything, all sorts of weapons and equipment. What made Li Guang most depressed was that it was not enough to hold a military meeting and bring an interpreter. Therefore, this army looks like there are 26,000 people, but in fact, it can only be used for miscellaneous work.

The Italians had the upper hand in the initial African theater and defeated the British army step by step. However, Mussolini was so arrogant that he divided his forces to attack Greece. Of the 500,000 troops, less than 300,000 are now facing the British head-on. The British commander-in-chief of the Middle East, Wei Weier, was also a veteran of a hundred battles, and seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack as early as December 6. After more than ten days of success, the latest battle actually captured 30,000 Italian troops with 3,000 troops.

And General Pratt in Central Africa is now also ready to move, repeatedly launching tentative attacks on the Italian army.

All of this is a good situation for the British army. But for Li Guang, it actually means little, these battlefields are too far away from the Guada Fuyi Point, where the Naval Resistance Army is located. Far water is difficult to quench thirst near and near. The closest friendly forces to the Naval Resistance Army are also nearly 1,000 kilometers away, and in essence, the Shanghai Resistance Army is fighting alone in the easternmost part of Africa.

The situation of the Naval Resistance Force is absolutely not optimistic.

Choosing to land here is definitely not a good choice for the Naval Resistance Army, in fact, for almost all armies, this is not a good landing location.

Generally speaking, landings are offensive battles, and they must have an advantage in terms of troops. The purpose of the landing was to be able to expand the army rapidly. There are no conditions for the rapid expansion of the army here, and as long as the opponent is stuck in a limited number of choke points, it will be difficult for even the strongest military force to deploy. Once the large army is confined to a small landing zone, then the landing party can only be greeted with defeat. What's more, the naval resistance army has absolutely no advantage in terms of strength.

Regardless of whether the Italians fought bravely or not, the generals who had attended military schools and regular officers of all ranks could definitely see this, so there were not many troops placed on the Italian side in this triangle.

In Italian Somalia, British Somalia, plus French Somalia (actually a Djibouti. On nearly a million square kilometers of land, the Italian army had a total of 30,000 men. In this triangular protrusion of tens of thousands of square kilometers, the Italian army's deployment of troops is even more pitiful, with a total of only one infantry brigade and more than 4,500 people.

The romance of the Italians is no longer below that of the French, and the defensive vigilance is very careless. In addition to causing a little riot among the local black aborigines (it also caused a little riot among the soldiers of the Navy, most of these simple soldiers had never seen blacks, and they thought they had seen ghosts in the dark. The fierce artillery explosions of the naval battle made the Italians accustomed to the fact that the officers did not even send a single soldier due to the previous bombardment of the naval resistance army.

Is this considered a surprise attack?

There was a surprise. Officers from all over the world probably would not choose this kind of terrain for amphibious landing.

In fact, the Navy also selected several landing sites in their previous reconnaissance, and this was also the place where it was abandoned. In this kind of place, even if you land, you don't know where the target of the attack is. Is it really necessary to fight all the way through the 300-kilometer-deep desert Gobi to cut off the East African railway?

The Italians had received reports early in the morning of local blacks or Italian civilians, but it was difficult for any general to judge the target of the Navy. Of course, the goal of the Naval Resistance Army is actually a little vague itself.

The romantic Italians simply did not have such a concept in their heads, believing that a battleship was worth a force to fight hard in the Jedi.

It was not until 10 a.m. on 27 December that the Italians sent a company of troops to make a tentative "attack" on the hilly pass.

This attack made Li Guang laugh and cry, and the expected bitter battle was not at all, and it could not even be called a battle. The Italians were a little too tentative. After firing a few shots from a distance, the light machine guns of the Naval Resistance Army returned a shuttle of bullets. And that was the end of the temptation.

By the time two infantry companies of the 1st Field Battalion arrived on the battlefield across the sea from Yemen in the afternoon, the Italians had no other move at all, and as for launching an attack, they did not do so at all.

Seeing the Italian army so "noodles" made Li Guang feel a little more at ease. After all, the 1st Field Battalion is the most well-trained and most combat-effective battalion among the Army units of the Naval Resistance Army, and the battle on land is not at the same level as the officers and men of the battleships that have been improvised together.

In fact, after making the order for the army to rush to help, Li Guang was actually a little conflicted, but he also had a little luck--- his opponent was the famous "noodles" in World War II.

What is the saying? In a certain battle, the Germans needed a division to fight on their own. But when the Italians sent one division, the Germans had to send two. One of the divisions was also to protect the "noodles".

When the order to change the guard was issued, Zheng Xuechang solemnly saluted Bao Gang, the commander of the First Field Battalion: "Please." ”

Bao Gang said: "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely show you the Pacific." ”

The officers and men on the battleship Pacific, except for the officers and men of dozens of engine and management groups. Most people had to be evacuated immediately. Li Guang absolutely did not allow the elite of the navy to be fearlessly consumed on the land battlefield.

Zheng Xuechang had to leave for Shixiang Island immediately, the battleship Atlantic was now understaffed and was doing basic training under the leadership of Huang Zhonghua.

It was also difficult for Li Guang to explain his feelings, the battleship Pacific was disabled, but the freed manpower easily filled the manpower vacancy of the battleship Atlantic, and the Atlantic will soon have combat effectiveness.

Pickup 2 dragged the sick body and led the only three remaining seaplanes to search the sea for a night and a day. More than 30 fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army were rescued, including four pilots. It is worth mentioning the capture of a Japanese aviation.

The retreat of the devils was very urgent, and even the Japanese army did not search and rescue them all, and in fact, it was difficult to search and rescue them all.

By noon, the loss of personnel and materials of the Naval Resistance Army had basically come to fruition. Li Guang looked at a few lines of shriveled numbers, and his heart ached.

The total number of killed was 275, and 215 were wounded, of whom 61 were seriously wounded.

The three battleships sunk in the battle suffered the heaviest casualties. Of the total number of 350 people, less than 170 survived, and more than half of the real casualties were killed.

Six battleships, six captains lost two.

The losses of water reconnaissance aircraft, fighter and bomber squads were also extremely heavy. Combat losses, plus losses from forced landings at night, resulted in a total of seven seaplane losses, leaving only two. Ten pilots were killed.

Tu far surpassed the fighter squad, losing eight fighters, and only four intact. Three pilots were killed.

There are only eight fighters in Liu Gensheng's squad intact. Two pilots were killed.

Although none of the bombers of Liu Guobang's squad fell, only six of them were able to continue the fight due to the forced landing at night and the serious injuries caused by the bullets. Six crew members were killed.

That is, the Air Force lost nearly half of its combat effectiveness in this battle. Twenty-one valuable pilots were killed.

These are the essence of the Naval Resistance Force, and after this battle, the Navy of the Naval Resistance Force, which had just had its embryonic form, was once again beaten back to its original form. But the price of blood and fire laid the foundation for the talent of the Naval Resistance Army. It is believed that these officers and soldiers who survived the blood and fire will be the cornerstone of the Naval Resistance Army.

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